JOB’S REPLY TO BILDAD

JOB’S REPLY TO BILDAD (ch. 9., 10.).—Job admitted the abstract truth of Bildad’s statements, though he repudiated his application of them. “How should man be just before God?” he asks (ch. 9:2). “If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me. If I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse. He entirely overthrew the logic of his friends by this emphatic statement: “The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covereth the faces of the judges thereof, if not, where, and who is he?” (verse 24). And then, on the basis of this self-evident truth, he asked “If I be wicked, why labour I in vain?” And then he bewailed the lack of a mediator between God and himself, who should fittingly and sympathetically plead his cause. “My soul is weary of my life,” said he, and “let me alone that I may die.”

1971 Christadelphian, p 114.